18. Strutture

Strutture is a collaborative artistic research project that explores the historical and contemporary mechanisms of power through their material and symbolic manifestations. Based on a study of the Palazzo della Libertà in Bergamo—monumental architecture of the Fascist era—and the Complesso Il Triangolo—a utopian architectural project of the 1990s—the installation deciphers how political regimes weave their ideologies into the very urban fabric throughout a city's history.

The visual core consists of textile panels in which Bergamo’s architectural geometry engages in a dialogue with the tradition of Peruvian textile art. This tradition is understood here as a ritual cartography and a living historical space that, like buildings, survives the passage of time through iconography. These forms are reactivated in an original sound composition that transforms threads into voices and textures into temporal structures, generating an atmosphere that is at once hypnotic and oppressive.

The spatial experience captures the viewer within geometric volumes that replicate the "spandrels"—inscribed squares and circles—found in both the Palazzo and the Triangolo, subtly inviting critical reflection. The visual and musical works are interlaced with references to insurrection and free expression—in the form of audio and written testimonies inspired by Paolo Berizzi’s anti-fascist chronicles (Pietre)—creating a rhetorical counterpoint between historical memory and its contemporary echoes.

Strutture confronts the paradox of inhabiting inherited landscapes: does the preservation of architectural symbols from an oppressive past serve as a warning, or does it risk becoming an act of normalization? The installation reveals how aesthetics of grandeur and order often function as a veil behind which systems of control are hidden.

This project is a call to deconstruct imposed narratives and to reclaim the capacity for collective agency to imagine, design and build truly free futures. It is not merely an exercise of remembrance, but an active warning regarding the structures—both visible and invisible—that continue to shape our present.